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...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
...State governors such as Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, or even Gavin Newsom of California would also be possible contenders....
...In the FT, John Burn-Murdoch is right that Texas can teach New York and California plenty about how to get over a housing crisis....
...But on the Wednesday morning following Oz’s defeat in Pennsylvania’s midterm elections, Bal pointed to a critical difference that led her to back his opponent, Democrat John Fetterman....
...At Davos, US climate envoy John Kerry said, though tweaks could be made during the US Treasury’s implementation process, “the basics of the legislation” were “exactly what we need”....
...And that’s what Whitmer needs.”...
...Democrats will have their own successes among incumbents to point to at a state level, including the re-election of governors Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan and Gavin Newsom in California....
...Michigan has been at the centre of the latest US wave, with the seven-day average of new cases having recently approached their record high of about 8,000 a day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University...
...Gretchen Whitmer is performing exceptionally well in Michigan. Michigan, for the first time in decades, has a Democratic trifecta....
...The state is currently reporting around 7,000 new cases of Covid-19 a day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University — close to the peak it hit last November....
...The country reported more than 69,100 new Covid-19 infections on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University — the most since July....
...Additional reporting by Lauren Fedor in Washington, James Shotter in Warsaw, Nicolle Liu in Hong Kong, John Reed in Bangkok, Erika Solomon in Berlin and Chloe Cornish in Beirut...
...(FT) What else we’re reading Gretchen Whitmer on battling Trump and surviving a kidnap plot The Democratic governor of Michigan has had to tackle surging Covid-19 cases, armed protesters and presidential...
...Michelle Malkin, a Fox News contributor, called it a “piece of crap”, and John Boehner, then the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, demanded its retraction....
...Four prominent Republicans — including John Kasich, the 2016 Republican presidential candidate and former governor of Ohio — also joined the virtual stage as the party attempted to project the depth of opposition...
...Last month John McDaniel, a 60-year-old from Marion, Ohio, wrote a series of Facebook posts in which he described the coronavirus outbreak as a “political ploy” and decried the “madness” of the governor’...
...But Ms Whitmer last week said shipments to her state were being redirected to the federal government....
...But they also differ from each other, John Thornhill writes. The 10 richest US billionaires are mostly innovators; their European counterparts inherited old money....
...Last week, the FBI uncovered an advanced plot by members of a rightwing militia to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s Democratic governor....
...In addition to Gretchen Whitmer’s victory in Michigan, Republicans were ousted in Wisconsin and Illinois, and Democrats comfortably held on to Pennsylvania....
...But in Montana, where Matt Rosendale leads Democratic incumbent John Tester, votes are yet to come in from some Democratic-leaning counties....
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